{"id":200519,"date":"2019-12-24T06:25:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/donald-trump-promotes-white-house-aide-who-refused-to-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry.html"},"modified":"2019-12-24T06:25:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:25:32","slug":"donald-trump-promotes-white-house-aide-who-refused-to-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/donald-trump-promotes-white-house-aide-who-refused-to-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump promotes White House help who refused to attest in impeachment inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Trump signs $1.4 trillion check to equivocate shutdown\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:true,bContent:false,vidNum:1,docking:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:news\/politics,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:BZ60,createDate:2019-12-21T19:00:21.378Z,credit:Buzz60,duration:64000,headline:Trump signs $1.4 trillion check to equivocate shutdown, raises tobacco-buying age to 21,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/6e73e2a2-fcd5-4774-a191-b00c54d249ae\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:2721428001,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/12\/21\/USAT\/8ab42a42-79ef-4a10-ae1e-b4b59043f3cf-TRUMP_GOVERNMENT_SHUTDOWN.JPG,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2019-12-21T19:09:32.587Z,keywords:Donald Trump,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/6e73e2a2-fcd5-4774-a191-b00c54d249ae\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:Buzz60,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/politics\/2019\/12\/21\/trump-signs-1-4-trillion-bill-avoid-shutdown\/2721428001\/},promoBrief:President Trump authorized a large spending bill, capping off a week of impeachment record with a singular bipartisan move.,publishDate:2019-12-21T19:09:32.587Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:politics,path:news\/politics,section:news,storysubject:,subsection:politics,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:Politics,topic:},tags:[{id:26f031d1-9924-4f10-b4e6-019d076113d5,name:Donald Trump}],title:Trump signs $1.4 trillion check to equivocate shutdown,url:\/videos\/news\/politics\/2019\/12\/21\/trump-signs-1-4-trillion-bill-avoid-shutdown\/2721428001\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/166dc_8ab42a42-79ef-4a10-ae1e-b4b59043f3cf-TRUMP_GOVERNMENT_SHUTDOWN.JPG\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2013 President Donald Trump has handed a graduation to a White House help who refused to attest in a House<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"> impeachment <\/a>inquiry opposite him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump, who is spending a holidays during his review in Palm Beach, Fla., has named <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Robert Blair<\/a> as a special deputy for general communications policy, a White House announced Monday. Blair will lead U.S. efforts to foster a secure and arguable tellurian communications system, a proclamation said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Blair now serves as a comparison confidant to behaving White House Chief of Staff <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Mick Mulvaney<\/a> and partner to a president. The White House pronounced he would continue in those roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Blair refused to attest in Nov before House committees conducting a impeachment exploration into Trump after a White House destined him not to seem for his deposition. Blair was one of a tiny organisation of officials who listened to Trump\u2019s phone call final Jul with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Who are a pivotal Republican players in a Senate impeachment trial?<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/a1338_8ab42a42-79ef-4a10-ae1e-b4b59043f3cf-TRUMP_GOVERNMENT_SHUTDOWN.JPG\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/12\/21\/USAT\/8ab42a42-79ef-4a10-ae1e-b4b59043f3cf-TRUMP_GOVERNMENT_SHUTDOWN.JPG?crop=1881,1642,x538,y62width=1320height=1154format=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"President Donald Trump\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During that call, Trump urged Zelensky to inspect former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden\u2019s son, Hunter, who worked for a Ukraine appetite association Burisma Holdings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The call overwhelmed off a sequence of events that led to a House opening an impeachment exploration into Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Last week, Trump became usually a third American boss in story to be impeached when a House voted in a mostly party-line opinion to assign him with abuse of energy and deterrent of Congress. A Senate hearing early subsequent year will inspect either he should be private from office.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has asked that Blair and several other witnesses who declined to concur with House impeachment investigators be called as partial of a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Senate trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Besides Blair, Schumer wants to a Senate to hear testimony from Mulvaney, former inhabitant confidence confidant John Bolton and Michael Duffey, associate executive for inhabitant confidence during a Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 4 are believed to have information about scarcely $400 million in troops assist that was funded from Ukraine and a pivotal White House assembly with a Ukraine personality that was allegedly used as precedence for a investigations Trump wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has deserted Schumer\u2019s direct for their testimony, arguing it would emanate a \u201cnightmarish precedent\u201d for a Senate.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Michael Collins covers a White House. Reach him on Twitter @mcollinsNEWS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Analysis: Trump some-more negative, inclusive on Twitter amid Democratic impeachment inquiry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/613739110\/0\/usatodaycomwashington-topstories~Donald-Trump-promotes-White-House-aide-who-refused-to-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2013 President Donald Trump has handed a graduation to a White House help who refused to attest in a House impeachment inquiry opposite him. Trump, who is spending a holidays during his review in Palm Beach, Fla., has named Robert Blair as a special deputy for general communications policy, a White House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-200519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}